Marcel reich ranicki biography of william shakespeare

Marcel Reich-Ranicki's most important publication is his autobiography "Mein Leben" ("The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki"), which appeared in German in 1999.

With it he became not only one of the most widely read authors in Germany. The chapters on his experiences in the Third Reich, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Polish underground are also among the most important writings to have appeared recently in the German language.

In 1929 Marceli Reich came to Berlin from his native town of Wloclawek in Poland, aged nine.

In 1938 he was arrested and sent back to Poland.

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For five years he and Teofila (or Tosia), who he married in the Ghetto in 1942, lived in constant fear for their lives. Reich-Ranicki does not like to speak about this time. His parents were deported to Treblinka and murdered there.

His brother was killed by SS officers in the forced labour camp at Poniatowa.

Still today he always sits facing the door in cafes and